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  • Mourning skirt detail.
    My projects,  Sewing

    Making a Victorian Mourning Dress: The Skirt

    October 21, 2022 / No Comments

    This autumn’s big project is the making of a Victorian mourning dress. This will be a series of three or four parts and in the first part, I’ll make the mourning skirt. This dress has been something that I have wanted to make for ages and it works nicely for Halloween. I found this nice and simple 1894 pattern from the online shop called Ageless Patterns. The shop is a bit hard to navigate, but all the patterns are actual historical patterns except that they have seam allowances and grainlines and some other helpful markings added. I think the dress would have been pretty modest at the time of the…

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  • My projects,  Other crafts

    How I carved my own corset busk

    September 29, 2022 / No Comments

    You can buy corset busks but making one yourself is actually easy and fun. All you need is a piece of wood and a Dremel tool and some paint and wood wax to decorate the results! I have made now two corset busks for my 1830s/1840s corset and I took inspiration from old Finnish and Karelian 19th-century embroidery patterns. This post contains affiliate links. The tools and materials I have had my Dremel tool for years and the kit I have resembles the one I linked down below. This set has a good amount of basic tips plus the flex-shaft attachment I used for my carving. However, you don’t necessarily…

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  • My projects,  Sewing

    A Romantic Era Corset from Old Curtains

    September 16, 2022 / 2 Comments

    I made myself a romantic era i.e. 1830s-1840s corset and a corded petticoat using a pattern by Black Snail Patterns.

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  • My projects,  Sewing

    Wearing your grandma’s curtains or making a regency dress out of recycled materials

    August 25, 2022 / No Comments

    How can you use recycled materials in historical costuming? What are my tips in finding the best materials in thrift stores?

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  • Askola vest and an apron
    My projects,  Sewing

    A folk vest and an apron from Askola, Finland

    July 30, 2022 / No Comments

    I made a Finnish folk vest and an apron from Askola village in Finland. These garments are based on museum items from early 19th century.

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  • Iron Age costume
    Leather working,  My projects,  Sewing,  Shoemaking

    Time-traveling to the Iron Age with my daughter

    July 18, 2022 / 1 Comment

    I made an Iron Age Finnish costume for my daughter so that we can take part in events together. Also, I did some leatherwork...

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  • Pink lolita dress.
    My projects,  Sewing

    A pink lolita-style dress

    July 12, 2022 / No Comments

    I sewed my daughter a Japanese sweet lolita style summer dress from pink cotton gingham. Decorated with lots of ruffles and bows, of course!

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  • My lingerie dress.
    Millinery,  My projects,  Sewing

    A Victorian lingerie dress

    June 14, 2022 / 5 Comments

    Lingerie dresses are those pretty frilly dresses that make the iconic Edwardian look with their lace inserts and pale colours. However, they first appeared in the 1890s. For a long time, I have wanted to make my own but sourcing that much lace was a problem. This kind of dress can use hundreds of euros worth of cotton lace which is way out of my budget. Then I had a stroke of luck and I found huge rolls of lace at the local Recycling centre. These rolls had hundreds of metres, some several kilometres worth of lace and they only cost about 15 to 20 euros each. Admittedly the lace…

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  • Askola skirt fabric
    My projects,  Weaving

    Weaving my own fabrics for my folk costume!

    June 10, 2022 / 4 Comments

    I spent 2 months weaving myself fabrics for my folk skirt and vest. I was slow but I learned a lot in the process.

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  • My Adele dress from the book Helmat.
    My projects,  Sewing books

    Adele dress from the new book “Helmat”

    June 2, 2022 / No Comments

    My book review of the new Finnish sewing book Helmat and the Adele dress I chose to make using a pattern from the book.

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